Welcome to the next Balanced Interview with my blogging friend The Frugal Physician! This woman is an inspiration to all who have a significant debt to pay off. She is known for conquering over $100,000 in student loan debt over a period of 6 months by mindfully changing lifestyle habits. This …
Disaster Preparedness and a Disappearing Blog
Right around the start of the new year, I set out to change some structural things on my blog in the interest of SEO. My efforts to take the blog more seriously in 2018 led to a migration of all content from an outdated platform to a new, modern style. I spent more time writing. I spoke on a …
A Balanced Interview #2: Eliza
Note: You may have noticed that the blog has been unreachable for a number of days. More on that later, but I'm happy to say it's been restored! Here is my first post-apocalypse article. Enjoy! Our next interview is with my friend and fellow blogger Eliza, the Minimal MD. She has a compelling …
2018 In Review
At the beginning of this year, I constructed a list of “18 for 2018” (small and large goals to be completed a la Gretchen Rubin, discussed in an earlier post). My completion rate was decent: of the 18 items, I definitively completed 14, initiated/partially did 2, and did not complete …
Prioritizing Holiday To-Dos
When I was a little girl, my standard response to the question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" was Wonder Woman. This was at the height of the character's popularity. I loved her on TV (yes, I'm dating myself) and in comics. She could do anything, and of course she was …
Growing Up, Changing My Mind, and More Money Matters
Our daughter just turned 3 years old last week, and life with her can only be described as an amazing journey. It seems like yesterday that we brought her home from the hospital on Thanksgiving weekend in a snowstorm. Yet, it feels like she's been with us forever. How is that dichotomy …
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